Are There Too Many R Packages?

The number of R extension packages available from the CRAN repository has tremendously grown over the past 10 years. We look at this phenomenon in more detail, and discuss some of its consequences. In particular, we argue that the statistical computing community needs a more common understanding...

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Main Author:	Hornik, Kurt
Format:	Others
Language:	en
Published:	Austrian Statistical Society, c/o Bundesanstalt Statistik Austria 2012
Subjects:	CRAN / software quality / semantic resources for statistical computing
Online Access:	http://epub.wu.ac.at/3814/1/121Hornik.pdf

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Are There Too Many R Packages?

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